Eubulus le Strange, 1st Baron Strange (died 1335) was an English baron and an especially competent and trusted military officer under

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Eubulo was a younger son of John le Strange and Alianora de Montz. He married

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(1281–1348) as her second husband in 1324,Le Strange Records
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, who was executed in 1322. Eubulo and Alice had no children. Eubulo died on 8 September 1335 while on campaign in the

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(1332–1357). His nephew,

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, aged forty years and more, was his heir.

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*Cokayne, George Edward, "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom", London: William Pollard & Co, 1953, Ed. 2 Vol XII Part 1. Year of birth missing 1335 deaths 14th-century English nobility English people of the Wars of Scottish Independence

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